I'm new to this forum and I read many threads about the question what would have happened in the Americas without European colonization. But what’s with Europe? This wasn’t a one way street.
This question troubles me for some time now. Europe’s economy wasn’t the best at the beginning of the 16th century (deforestation, pollution, overpopulation, no trade with the east etc.). So, if the discovery of America would have been delayed for about 50 or 100 years there would have been a century without the gold, the resources and the new land of the Americas. What would have happened to Europe?
[FONT="]Would they have find other sources for their needs, would there be constant war or…?[/FONT]